Tea-Table Talk

Who would be a chaperone?He would fling himself on his knees before her, never noticing the dogI left them at itHe went with her and made himself ridiculous at the dressmaker'sWhy should we seek to explain away all the beautiful things of life?Are we so sure that art does elevate?The artist knew precisely the sort of girl that ought to be thereA man's work 'tis till set of sun, but a woman's work is never done!Does the lady out shopping ever fall in love with the waiter at the bun-shop?Woman has been appointed by Nature the trustee of the childrenComparing himself the while with Moliere reading to his cookThe singer may be a heavy, fleshy man with a taste for beerIt is the fool who imagines her inhumanIt seized a natural human passion and turned it to good usesShe suggested that poets and novelists should take service for a year in any large drapery or millinery establishmentWho is it succeeds in escaping the law of the hive?